Photo based Head

[JohnArtbox]

I've recently been doing a lot of cutout animation, and that has lead me to a program called CrazyTalk which uses a 3d mesh to deform an image of a head.

But then I thought how easy it would be to use the same method in AM.

It's a very simple mesh mapped with a photo of my head, with separate eyes inserted and the next step being to add teeth as well. By using a face mesh with pre-built emotion poses it should make creating character heads very simple. Because the lighting is built into the photos I've rendered with 100 ambient light and used the environment shader to add the specular highlights to the eyes. Next step is to add simple bodies to complement the heads.

SelfPortrait.mov

This is about three hours so far.

[jason1025]

very cool

[itsjustme]

Very cool, John! The only glaring issue I saw was the stretched decal under the nose...probably unavoidable, but correctable.

[largento]

Very Very Cool!

[TheSpleen]

I love it!

[agep]

Cool! It works very well

[Rodney]

Too much fun!

[JohnArtbox]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Added a photo-textured hand and faKEAO at 50% to add some additional lighting definition. I haven't added bones to the thumb and there are some seam issues. Next a simple body to match.

Head.mov

[tbenefi33]

That's pretty cool.

[John Bigboote]

Dude...seriously... you are on to something here... two words of advice- ZIGN TRACK. (A:M Track facial motion-capture software.)